How to Install and Uninstall colord Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: October 06,2024

1. Install "colord" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install colord on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install colord

2. Uninstall "colord" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall colord on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove colord $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the colord package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: colord
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 842
Maintainer: Christopher James Halse Rogers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2.12-1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcolord2 (>= 1.2.0), libcolorhug2 (>= 0.1.30), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 146), libgusb2 (>= 0.2.2), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), libsane (>= 1.0.24), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libsystemd0, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, adduser, acl, policykit-1 (>= 0.103), colord-data
Suggests: colord-sensor-argyll
Filename: pool/main/c/colord/colord_1.2.12-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 177518
MD5sum: 9ae865a485aed419c53ae52c7aae3ce1
SHA1: 3cac027dde66cb556fe66ef665d35aac7aee8357
SHA256: feb794eb09185fe6bf002c79e18fb8a700bbf6abb629a1f4cf03fd1f2c82c206
Description-en: system service to manage device colour profiles -- system daemon
colord is a system service that makes it easy to manage, install and generate
colour profiles to accurately colour manage input and output devices.
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It provides a D-Bus API for system frameworks to query, a persistent data
store, and a mechanism for session applications to set system policy.
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This package contains the dbus-activated colord system daemon.
Description-md5: 64e70acbf5b727798902cde7ba73ee66
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, print-server, kubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, lubuntu-core, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntu-sdk, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop